(a) Estimates for the United States and the United Kingdom are from the Congressional
Budget Office and Her Majesty's Treasury, respectively, and are for
the relevant fiscal years for each country; other figures are RBA estimates
based on national and international sources. Data for the United States
refer to federal government fiscal balance.

(a) Actual data to December 2008. Underlying inflation refers to the average
of trimmed mean and weighted median inflation. For the forecast period,
technical assumptions include A$ at US$0.75, TWI at 61, cash rate at 3.00
per cent, and WTI crude oil price at US$65 per barrel and Tapis crude
oil price at US$67 per barrel.